Critical in ’09 report

Credit: Mark Garfinkel

DEADLY FLAMES: A firefighter stays below a massive burst of flames as he fights the inferno at 298 Beacon St. on March 26.

The same federal agency that blamed poor Boston Fire Department policies for the deaths of two firefighters in a 2007 restaurant blaze is considering a probe into the Back Bay fire that killed Lt. Edward J. Walsh Jr. and firefighter Michael R. Kennedy, the Herald has learned.

A spokeswoman for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said the agency is “currently reviewing the incident and in communication with the Boston Fire Department, and will make a final decision on whether we will investigate.”

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